On the way to the north, you need to cross a large area of sea belonging to the Northern Dynasty, but fortunately, Liang En's boat is fast enough and can be positioned in a straight line away from the coast with the help of instruments, so there are no problems along the way.

More than 20 hours later, the ship successfully appeared near the exploration point, and at this time, a silver dragon descended from the sky and transformed into a human form on the deck of Liang En's ship.

"You're finally back." Looking at Liang En, who came out of the stern building, Ao Lei, who was tired, showed a relieved expression. "I'm running out of it."

"You don't look good, what's going on there?" Liang En handed over a pot of hot chocolate that she had prepared in advance, and then asked, "Youkai cannibalism or barbarian siege?"

"If you're talking about these problems, it's easy to deal with, but the problem now is that I need to organize 1,300 people belonging to a dozen tribes, and it's too difficult—"

Maybe because she finally waited for someone who could complain, Ao Lei was a little emotionally unstable, but fortunately, after complaining a few words and releasing her emotions, her mood also stabilized, and after taking the thermos cup and pouring herself a few mouthfuls, she began to talk about the problems she had encountered recently

The whole thing starts with the resources that Liang left behind when he left a few months ago, when he prepared a lot of food, clothing, and tools to help his own people, and told them to take the opportunity to gather some people.

Because of the sufficient supplies, the winter of those tribes was unprecedentedly good, and it was also the first winter in the past ten years in which no one froze to death or starved to death.

Also because of the supplies, these people began to take in some other tribesmen who had to flee during the winter after encountering disasters for various reasons, according to the orders left by Liang En earlier.

As a result, they took in exiles almost the same size as their own population. Although these exiles are mainly old and weak, they do not cause much trouble, but the rapid increase in population in a short period of time has also brought a lot of problems.

After all, each of these local tribes that fish and hunt for a living is not very large, so they are not familiar with this kind of situation where a large number of people live together, so naturally they will do a lot of things.

And now the only one who can be recognized by everyone is a rough character, and in the past, making incense here was just relying on force to protect the tribe from being attacked by some monsters, and he didn't manage it at all.

But she also knew that only she had the prestige and knowledge to deal with the current situation, so she could only rely on a little theoretical knowledge and absolute force.

"-Seriously, it's more tiring than going out and fighting demons every day." After drinking the hot chocolate in the thermos pot, Ao Lei, who had finished narrating the situation, leaned on the side of the boat and looked at the busy lamp gods, and the whole person relaxed.

"It's good that you're back now, and I can leave some things to you—by the way, do you have a place to rest here, I haven't slept well lately, so let me take a nap for an hour."

More than two hours later, the sailboat arrived at the pioneer point, and in front of Liang En and Ao Lei, who had just gotten out of bed, was a fortified village full of local style, and there was no trace of the village that was destroyed by fire at that time.

This year, there is enough food, clothing, and various equipment. So the natives, who had not been able to hunt and gather for several months, overworked on some important infrastructure, such as leveling the land and expanding the docks

It's just that because of the harsh environment, everyone only leveled more than 30 acres of land near the village, but the port and the buildings in the settlement were indeed built.

Although these buildings are still a bit rudimentary in Liang's eyes, they should be regarded as the strongest and largest settlement built by the natives in this land.

In particular, Liang En brought with him the technology of building strongholds for the Cossacks who had been burning and looting in Siberia, which greatly reduced the problem of frostbite attrition caused by the originally simple wooden houses.

At the same time, the abundance of modern steel tools allowed them to cut down enough trees and build a wall full of hundreds of years of age, along with dirt, grass ash, roots, etc

Outer fortifications in the style of Sark Castle.

In addition to the rooms and fortifications, the well-staffed Ainu built three small ports along the river, each capable of harboring three thousand ships.

Soon, the boat gently leaned against the wooden trestle under the operation of the lantern gods, and then Liang En and Ao Lei boarded the dock along the lowered gangplank.

Behind them was a group of serfs who had been escorted down by the god of lights. The serfs were all ragged and nervously huddled together, their eyes full of fear.

Because they found that everything in front of them was covered with snow, whether it was a nearby village or a vast mountain in the distance, even more desolate than their homeland hidden deep in the mountains.

What frightened these serfs even more was that the village was full of Ainu who were regarded by the Yingzhou people as cannibals.

In particular, some Ainu patrolling Ainu wore helmets and robes covered with brass bubble nails. With oil paint painted on his face and a bow and arrow, spear or steel knife in his hand, he looks murderous.

If a person from a modern society comes here, they will find that they are dressed a little strangely: they are wearing cotton armor invented in the Ming Dynasty, but they are wearing Soviet steel helmets on their heads-

Since discovering that this group of Ainu people is skilled in their workmanship, Liang En has brought a large number of modern world textiles and perforated steel sheets, as well as a series of sewing tools, for everyone to make cotton armor according to the drawings.

Only steel helmets really can't find so many classical steel helmets, so they simply bought the remaining military helmets from the former Soviet Union, and the result has become such a weird mix and match style.

But mixing and matching is mixed and matched, and the overall effect is still very good. At least in some of the small *** in winter, these heavily armed warriors killed hundreds of barbarians who came to attack with almost zero casualties.

This kind of murderous aura was really too terrible for the serfs, thanks to those lamp gods separating the two sides, so this group of people could maintain basic composure and follow Liang En's advance, and not be frightened to sit on the ground like a fierce beast.

However, instead of entering the town as expected, they walked some distance east along the wall, and finally came to a rather rudimentary camp more than 300 meters from the town.

Although it was simple, it was already very good in the eyes of the serfs: it was a village with a fence, and the wooden houses in the village were small, but the level of warmth should be good in terms of heavy wood.

Soon, all the people were driven into the bathhouse by the lamp gods to clean up, while their clothes were burned until they were given a full set of new clothes after washing.

After putting on their clothes, the group was obviously much more relaxed, after all, if you really wanted to kill them, there was no need to consume the precious hot water in the winter to bathe them, let alone send them new clothes.

After everyone stood in the square in a mess, Liang En, who had consumed a drop of Qi Luck Essence and learned Japanese, stood on the earthen platform, and then told the serfs below about the next arrangements for them.